Housing crisis, economic woes and Trump: How Canada turned against immigrants

Los Angeles Times ^ | Dec. 12, 2024 3 AM PT | Kate Linthicum

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TORONTO —  Canada long sold itself as a beacon for immigrants, who were widely viewed as key to economic growth in a vast nation with a small and rapidly aging workforce.

“Study, work and stay” was the slogan of a government campaign to lure international students, part of a broader push that included recruiting temporary workers and resettling refugees. After President Trump banned travel to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries in 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada’s doors were open.

“To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith,” he wrote on the platform now known as X. “Diversity is our strength.”

But in recent months, Canada has changed course.

For the first time in a quarter-century, a majority of Canadians say there is too much immigration. Hate crimes are on the rise, along with rhetoric blaming newcomers for the country’s economic woes.

Under fire for admitting record numbers of migrants, Trudeau’s government recently slashed the annual total allowed into the country. It also announced a plan to beef up security along the U.S. border.

“The reality is that not everyone is welcome here,” Canada’s immigration minister declared last month.

The abrupt about-face has scrambled life for hundreds of thousands of migrants who came here and planned to stay. And it puts Canada in the company of the United States and many countries in Europe that have seen a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment and policy in recent years.

In Canada, a nation of 41 million where 2 in 5 people are either immigrants or children of one, the debate has triggered an identity crisis, with a surge in xenophobia that is out of sync with the country’s reputation as a place that is welcoming to newcomers.

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And it puts Canada in the company of the United States and many countries in Europe that have seen a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment and policy in recent years.

They still refuse to acknowledge the difference between legal and illegal immigration.

[SkyDancer]

Immigrants to Canada, illegals to US.

[BitWielder1]

They also refuse to acknowledge the difference between a reasonable number who wish to work and raise families versus hordes of criminals, terrorists and military age men with unknown purposes.

[bert]

I was told by a Canadian engineer of Chinese ethnicity that more that 50% of present Canadians were born in other countries.

Canada is already somewhere else

[Don W]

Canada, a nation of ~35 million, imported nearly 1.8 million people last year. That is NOT a sustainable rate, and is in fact an intentional dilution of the culture.

Import the third world, become the third world. It’s obvious, but the libtards think it’s a good thing...

Diverity: root word: DIVIDE!

[Organic Panic]

The same a holes who bow down to the poor “first nation peoples” and want white European people to give up everything and self flagellate are the same ones inviting in million of turd world invaders. Which is it?

Rhetorical question of course

[BobL]

“I was told by a Canadian engineer of Chinese ethnicity that more that 50% of present Canadians were born in other countries. Canada is already somewhere else”

I can believe that. Much like Europe, Canada feels the sick need to ‘distinguish itself’ from their (perceived) RACIST neighbor to the south - so, part of doing that is to invite-in millions of REAL RACISTS, just to stick it to us.

Problem is, of course, that there are also lots of Real Canadians, and they are SCREWED.

[yesthatjallen]

Brampton Ontario is now majority non-white. They're now erecting Hindu temples.

"In the 2021 Canadian census, people of South Asian origin were the largest ethnocultural group in Brampton - accounting for 52.4% of the population. Other groups included those of European (18.9%), Black (13.1%), Filipino (3.2%), Latin American (2.1%), Southeast Asian (1.4%), Chinese (1.1%), West Asian (1.1%), and Arab (1%) ancestry. The city is very ethnically diverse with approximately 60% of Brampton's residents being foreign-born."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brampton#Demographics